Crossout: Complete Beginner’s Guide

Admit it, Death Race may or may not have been the reason why you’re eager to try Crossout because a normal demolition derby just won’t cut it for you. You like cars, 30mm machineguns, and putting together stuff that doesn’t make sense because what matters to you most is sending everybody back to the lobby and coming out on top. But with all the customization options available you’re left with no idea where to start! Where do you even shoot? Well you’re in good hands, in this guide you will be shown what a beginner should know and what mistakes to avoid so strap in!

Complete Beginner’s Guide to Crossout

There’s plenty to keep in mind when building your dream death machine. You can either go for fully optimization and efficiency, or you can just have fun and mess around with what you think looks good. Today we’ll go with the former and let you build away once you get the basics!

First is weapon placement, most of the time you will definitely feel the consequences of your actions if you plop your guns down on the side of your machine, especially on an armor piece of all things. Why? Because if that armor piece goes, your gun goes with it.

There is an exception however, and that is the Buggy Floor, these have a damage resistance of 90%. Most of the bullets coming your way will just pass on through before your mount breaks off. You can mount them on your frames or the cabin itself.

Up next is movement parts! Now you might be thinking “The more wheels I have, the better!”  In some rare cases? Maybe. But most of the time you definitely would want to stick between four to six wheels. Make sure at least two of them can steer! To know this hover over the wheel and check if it has ST on it.

If you want more control we would recommend installing at least two sets of ST wheels. That’s almost the equivalent of a 4×4! Now we mentioned six wheels earlier so if you have the real estate slap on some non-ST wheels somewhere in the middle as well.

Coming up is the Generator, a common mistake that most payers do with this is attach them to the sides for some reason. You’re doing other players a favor with this as these things tend to explode and hurt in that order. And if that thing explodes, it ends up with you returning to the lobby.

A good idea is to use an Open Frame and put it under your machine. Your enemies won’t be able to get under there unless you flip over for too long. Which you shouldn’t! That, or they have a Scorpion.

Another thing you should know about is the Power Score. When you form a party with a friend and there’s a huge gap in your score or rating, you or your friend will not have a good time as they won’t be anywhere near effective in the match you’ll end up in due to how underequipped they will be.

If you don’t want matchmaking to prioritize someone with a higher power score, make sure to refit the equipment you have to make the gap between you and your party smaller. Weapons add the most to this if you didn’t know.

There will be a point in the game where you will hit level 3, and when that happens it would be best to participate in Awakening. They’re marked by a blue icon on the map and give out a significant amount of experience.

Keep playing that until you’re no longer able to or if the game re            quires you to level up further to progress in the story. This also grants you resources like scrap and copper that you can use for your Workbench!

Also, if you’re looking to make some Gold you’re better off just selling your resources or going to the Engineer workbench and craft some Repair Kits. You get a stack of five for each time you craft and you get at least 4.55 for selling each kit. That’s 22.75 worth of gold!

And there you go! Now you know what to do as a beginner in Crossout. Feel free to go out there and blow someone up with a missile!